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To: ansel12
What does having been part of the revolution from 1952/53 through 1957 a long with Castro, have to do with when Castro finally defeated Batista?

There is the fact that Castro was serving a public, judicial prison sentence from October 1953 to May 1955.

And that Castro lived in Mexico from late 1955 to December 1956.

So, for three years, there was no free Castro in Cuba to fight alongside.

Very few people fought with Castro in 1953, even fewer were members of his group while he was in prison or abroad, and his group did not start to grow much above 300 or so partisans until after the failed assassination attempt on Batista in March 1957 which Castro condemned.

So the number of people who fought with Castro between 1952 and 1957 probably peaked around 300, more than half of whom were officially imprisoned and another 55 of which were publicly held over for trial and acquitted.

If Rafael Cruz was a dedicated guerrilla fighter from 1952-1957 he was one of a very rarified crew.

If he was secretly imprisoned during this time, as opposed to those publicly imprisoned along with Castro, he is rarer still.

53 posted on 03/24/2015 12:42:46 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

You keep posting irrelevant information, meaningless dates and locations, why?

And in keeping with your sleazy dishonesty, you now have Cruz, not as a part of the revolution, as a participant, but as a “”dedicated guerrilla fighter from 1952-1957 “”.

Just like you created the “secretly imprisoned during this time, as opposed to those publicly imprisoned “.

What is your game, troll? Give us a hint of why you are trolling this so hard and so bitterly.

Is this about Cruz being a Minister?


55 posted on 03/24/2015 12:55:27 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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